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8th European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
 
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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 13 April 8.30 

C-1  -  MAT02: Life Stories of Consumption
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Lewis Siegelbaum
Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Matleena Frisk New consumer goods, adolescent identities and embodied gender in mid 20th century Finland
Joeri Januarius Keeping Up Appearances? Clothing, Haircuts, and Material Culture of Mineworkers’ Families in the 1950s
Lesley Whitworth The American Notebooks: Natasha Kroll's 1948 US retail research trip

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

R-2  -  MAT05: Material and Consumer Culture in Transformation
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Merijn Knibbe
Discussant: Merijn Knibbe
Jaco Zuijderduijn Investment Strategies in 16th Century Holland
Alan Hutchinson The introduction of new consumer goods in the Northern Trade
Ingo Heidbrink US Influences on Danish Colonial Greenland - The material culture
Eloy Alves Filho, Arlete Salcides The use of traditional and modern technics in the small farms in Brazil

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

I-2  -  TEC02: National Technological Politics
Room D1, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Peter Meyer
Discussant: Peter Meyer
Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Kristina Söderholm Shared problems, shared costs and common solutions. Cooperation for clean technology development in the Swedish pulp- and paper industry 1900-1990.
Sabil Francis Negotiating Technology: The IITs in India
Lewis Siegelbaum Sputnik and the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, 1958
Will Wilson 'A Nation at Work' Exhibition Düsseldorf 1937: Producing and Consuming

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

R-3  -  MAT04: Court Consumption
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Jonathan Spangler
Chair: Peter Stabel
Discussant: Peter Stabel
Jonathan Spangler Material Culture in the Court of the Guise: inventories, libraries, furniture and visual representations of power and piety in 17th-century Paris
Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier The "Menus Plaisirs" administration and its material sphere. A study on material court culture in the 18th century France
Christina Antenhofer Luggage for a life yet to live: The Bride’s treasure as an example for female material culture
Luc Duerloo Tangible Courtesies: Diplomatic Gift Exchange at the Archducal Court of Brussels
Dries Raeymaekers Living like Kings and Loving it. Consumption and Display at the Court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in Brussels, 1598-1621

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

R-4  -  MAT03: Homemaking, Cherishing and the Senses
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Paddy Dolan
Discussant: Paddy Dolan
Natalie Scholz Whose authority reigns in the living room? Contested meanings of the past and the present in West German discourses on ‘Wohnkultur’ during the 1950s
Pia Lundqvist, Christer Ahlberger Consumption fantasies in modern literature 1820-1860
Margaret Ponsonby A Home of One's Own? Spinsters, Bachelors and the Consumption of Homemaking in the Long 18th Century
Kennan Ferguson Eating the Nation
Sara Pennell Home is where the hearth is? Exploring the uses and means of the hearth in Restoration & later Stuart London (17th c.)

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

Z-4  -  TEC01: The Development of New Consumer Cultures
M204, Marissal

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Dick Van Lente
Discussant: Lesley Whitworth
Hiroki Shin, Colin Divall Rapid travel in comfort: quality of passenger experience in the history of Britain's railways
Gabriele Balbi How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone case study
Clive Edwards Developing new markets in the European furniture industry through the use of lamination and bentwood design and technology, 1830-1880
Alberto Grandi The refrigeration industry and changes in food consumption

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

O-5  -  ANT04: Ancient Globalisation and Connectivity
Auditorium D3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Brooks Kaiser
Discussant: Brooks Kaiser
Colin Elliott Inflation, Debasement and Economic Integration in the Third Century AD
Neville Morley Consumption, commodities and control: the dynamics of Roman globalisation
Martin Pitts Globalising processes and connectivity in Roman Britain

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

C-5  -  ECO03: Fashion and Art Markets
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Jon Stobart
Ian Mitchell ‘I designe my books for posterity’: book collectors and conspicuous consumption in early modern England
Laura Ibisco, Valdo D'arienzo The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Klas Nyberg The economics of art and art industry: Patrons, artists and artisans in 18th century Stockholm

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

R-5  -  MAT01: Enlightenment and Divertissement:Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Hester Dibbits
Discussant: Hester Dibbits
Kari Telste An Eighteenth Century Reception Room: New Consumer Goods and International Trade Relations in Norway
Marieke Lefeber Top hits of the rich; The role of the music on musical clocks in the eighteenth-century Netherlands
Kathryn Norberg Cultural Capital in the Boudoir: Courtesans as Tastemakers in Eighteenth Century Paris

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

R-6  -  MAT06: Consumer Culture in the Early Modern Countryside
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Karin Dannehl
Discussant: Karin Dannehl
Christof Jeggle Providing Textiles on the Countryside. The Business of the Perrollaz-Chartier in Laufenburg / Rhine around 1800.
Olanda Barbosa Vilaça Clothes for the Body, Clothes for the Bed: the Uses of Textiles in a Rural Environment (Northwest Portugal, 1750-1810)

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

N-6  -  MID01: Fabric and Gender I
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Shennan Hutton
Chair: Shennan Hutton
Discussant: Barbara Hanawalt
Peter Stabel Dress as a social marker. The material culture of Bruges women in the late Midddle Ages
Rui Faria Sheltering the Body, Storing Clothes and Tidying up the House: Material Culture in Northwest Portugal, 1540-1600
Joana Sequeira, Arnaldo Melo Women’s role in Portuguese textile production in the Later Middle Ages

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

R-7  -  MAT07: Experiences of Chance, Motivation and Risk in Gambling
Atelier R3, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Riitta Matilainen
Chair: Roberto Garvia
Discussant: Roberto Garvia
Riitta Matilainen The roulette as a symbol of Western and continental way of life in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s
Maria Kaizeler, Horácio Faustino & Rafael Marques Why Do People Buy Lottery Products?
Sytze Kingma Dostojevski and Freud: Autonomy and Addiction in Gambling
Orsi Husz Work ethics and lottery ethics. Changing moral attitudes towards lottery in Sweden 1890s - 1939

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

N-7  -  MID02: Fabric and Gender II
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Shennan Hutton
Chair: Laura Van Aert
Discussant: Walter Prevenier
Shennan Hutton Organizing Specialized Production: Gender in Medieval Flemish Wool Cloth Industry
Laura Michele Diener "Sacred Labor: Medieval Nuns and Textile Production"
Valdo D'arienzo, Laura Ibisco The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

A-9  -  MAT08: Old Collectables in a Modern World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Ilja Van Damme
Organiser: Dries Lyna
Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Chair: Dries Lyna
Discussant: Dries Lyna
Adriana Turpin The emerging antiques market in early 19th century England
Julia Petrov "Bits of Kernooze"; Homosociality and antiquarianism in Britain, 1880-1914
Manuel Charpy Trafficking the world, trafficking the times. The market of exotic antiques in Paris between 1850 and 1914
Jozef Glassée Collecting and donating art. On the relationship between private art consumption and donations to the fine arts museums of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent (c. 1800–c. 1914)

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

T-11  -  EDU10: Children, Youth and Cultural Transformation
M202, Marissal

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Bengt Sandin
Paddy Dolan The Development of Childhood Subjectivity in Ireland since 1840: A Figurational Approach
Shurlee Swain We are the stories we tell about ourselves

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

K-11  -  MAT09: Authenticity, Canonization, Professionalization and the Museum
Room D13, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Discussant: Ilja Van Damme
Mark Westgarth Putting History in Order: Sir Samuel Meyrick’s ‘Period Rooms’ at Goodrich Court, 1828-1831
Abigail Harrison Moore Authentic Objects?: The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Antiques Trade in the early Twentieth Century
Uta Protz The Construction of New Cultural Elites: The Foundation of the Vereniging Rembrandt (1883), the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (1897), the Société des Amis du Louvre (1897) and the National Art Collections Fund (1903)

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

C-12  -  MAT10: Branding across Borders
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Bert De Munck Guilds, branding and the location of value. Trade marks and monograms in early modern tableware industries
Katarina Friberg Without boundaries – a consumer co-operative ideal and logo
Ilja Van Damme A ‘knowledgeable’ retailer or a ‘recognizable’ product? An inquiry into early-modern branding strategies (Antwerp, 17th-18th centuries)
Jennifer Scanlon Branding Girlhood
Oliver Kühschelm The Call for Patriotic Consumption in the Interwar years

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

F-13  -  MAT13: Medieval Royal Treasuries: Consumption and Circulation of Luxury Goods
Vestibule, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Chair: Peter Stabel
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Adriana Almeida Luxury and fashion in the 14th century. Precious fabrics, pearls and gold in the wardrobe of Leonor of Portugal
Hermenegildo Fernandes Treasure and politics behind an Inventory: Denis of Portugal household accounts as a young king (1278-1283)
Isabel Guimarães Sá Inhabited spaces: chambers, churches and oratories. The example of Portuguese queens and princesses (1450-1550)
Luis Urbano Afonso Beyond gems and gold: interpreting secular culture in the treasures of Portuguese high-aristocracy and royalty (c.1280-c.1340)

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

A-14  -  ELI12: Elites through material culture
Auditorium, muziekcentrum

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Jari-Matti Kuusela
Chair: Marja Vuorinen
Discussant: Jari Okkonen
Jari-Matti Kuusela Burials of the Finnish Iron Age as material discourses of the elite
Samuel Vaneeckhout The origin of prehistoric elites in Finland
Laura Giacomini The Life of the Milanese Elite in their Residences as Reconstructed through Estate Inventories (XVI-XVII century)
Danielle De Vooght Performing power at the table. Dining at the Belgian royal court of the nineteenth century

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

N-16  -  ELI13: Elites by the book: novels, diaries, autobiographies, account books, recipe books, inventories
Auditorium D2, Pauli

    Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Organiser: Yme Kuiper
Chair: Paul Janssens
Discussant: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Yme Kuiper Nobility and Fiction: the representation of the nobility in the 'roman fleuve' around 1900
Hanneke Ronnes The memory of the noble house
Jon Stobart Tea and cakes: elite consumption of groceries in eighteenth-century England
Jaap Moes Some aspects of the life style of Dutch aristocracy around 1900
Wybren Verstegen Private landownership, nobility and nature conservation in the Netherlands 1928- 1973